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PLACES
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KHALAPUR
Khalapur (Khalapur Peta, 18° 15' N, 73° 15' E: p. 1,059; RS.
Khopoli, 5 m.) about six miles south of Karjat, is the head-quarters of the Khalapur Peta. It was established by a certain general Kholesvar and hence it came to be called Kholapur after his name. In course of time the original name was corrupted into Khalapur. Here Parasurambhau Patvardhan
had defeated a contingent of the English army and hence the place is historically important. The town, on the Panvel and Poona high road eighteen miles south-east of Panvel, six south of Cauk, and five north-west of Khopoli is on the Patalganga river, across which a bridge has been built. The village was developed under the community development programme. The new buildings in the village are the taluka kaceri, a veterinary dispensary, the Taluka Panchayat Samiti Office, a samaj mandir, a manure godown, and the Adivasi Boarding House.
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